I like that argument, reminds me of the fat angry kid on the Simpsons: "eh, got to nuke something". (commenting on his poster depicting a whale being nuked)

When we sell our debt, we agree to pay the purchaser interest on that debt. Shit will get real if/when we can't come up with the cash to cover the interest on the debt we sold. Keep in mind no one ever talks about paying down the principle, we are just worried about paying the interest on our debt, so we can sell more…

HA, New York City spent 17 billion dollars on public education in 2007.

Add a zero.

why do rich people go to the post office? what are they doing in there?

Judge away....

awesome wallpaper, willing to post a link to it?

If you're into the whole cloud / streaming thing, check out SubSonic! It makes your personal tubes and puter the cloud; skipping the whole managing your music in two locations thing.

I thought that drugs engineer their own demand, and that is the big case for making them illegal.

but why......not just tailor them to the crushing site. They obviously roll. I would hate to be the poor sap how has to weep up all that broken glass from the parking lot.

boom.

Because there is not much money to be made in ice packs, slightly salty water, and rest?

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!

Is there a way to UNstar you?

After season 2 of Lost, shows involving plane crashes and/or islands have been baned in my household.

I never said there was no cost. I said relatively inexpensive.

Mow much could planting a GPS device on a car cost the tax payers? I would think that this was relatively inexpensive compared to other crap our government invests in, and one could argue that pro-active investigations like this are great deal if they keep Americans alive.

MTV as a music brand, is dead and has been for the better part of a decade.

MTV as a music brand is dead, and has been for the better part of a decade. This will be downloaded by 14 year old girls looking for more Ke$ha.

While I agree that baggages fees are just a clever way to keep the base fare artificially low, I don't think they do this to "trick" customers about the true cost of a flight. You got it correct, they do this so they can advertise the lowest fare possible.